KSKN

KSKN (channel 22) is a television station in Spokane, Washington, United States, affiliated with The CW.

The two stations share studios on South Regal Street in the Southgate neighborhood of Spokane; KSKN's transmitter is on Krell Hill to the southeast.

KSKN began broadcasting full programming in December 1983 as an independent station and remained on the air for less than four years, during which two successive owners filed for bankruptcy.

In September 1985, KSKN was sold to Sun Continental Group over the objection of one of Broadcast Vision Television's creditors.

Tragedy struck on March 1, 1986, when Gene Adelstein died at the age of 55 while playing tennis in West Palm Beach, Florida.

[16][17] In July 1996, KSKN entered into a local marketing agreement with KREM, which was owned by The Providence Journal Company at the time.

[17] By 1999, the station was a secondary affiliate of The WB, airing its programming first overnight and then in more viewer-friendly off-pattern hours.

[20] The next year, KSKN became an exclusive affiliate of The WB and began airing its shows in pattern, having previously displaced them to other timeslots to air UPN prime time shows; UPN migrated to a new station, KQUP (channel 24).